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Bioluminescence of searsid fishes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Peter J. Herring
Peter J. Herring
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey, U.K.
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Extract

The luminescent material emitted from the post-cleithral organ of searsid fishes is in the form of granule-packed cells. From this material a partially purified extract may be prepared which shows some of the properties to be expected from a photoprotein. The purified material luminesces on treatment with hydrogen peroxide and, specifically, ferrous iron. The properties of the luminescent system appear similar to those of material isolated from the luminous polychaete Chaetopterus.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , November 1972 , pp. 879 - 887
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1972

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